George E. MacLean

(1850-1938) lived in Lincoln. Educator, administrator, author, as chancellor of the University of Nebraska and then the University of Iowa from 1895 to 1911, he was known as an innovator who stressed culture as well as agriculture, established summer school for educators, and encouraged scholarly research as well as teaching; credited with developing the University of Iowa into a leading state university, and as a specialist with the U.S. Bureau of Education he was first American to publish comprehensive reports of British colleges. Consult New York Times obituary, May 5, 1938, p. 23 and Dictionary of American Biography, Sup 2 (1958) 419-420 and Robert N. Manley, Centennial History of the University of Nebraska: Frontier University, Vol 1 University of Nebraska Press, 1969) 116-131, 161.

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